Should we be looking for an upgrade at Kicker?

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Nugent's only redeeming quality is he is an OSU player, which some fans absolutely love.

Fact is, he's been a pretty much terrible kicker his entire career in Cincinnati, with the exception of one year. Here's where he ranks in the NFL in FG% year-by-year...

2015: 23rd
2014: 27th
2013: 23rd
2012: 20th
2011: 8th
2010: 21st

You know why Nugent was 8th in 2011? Because that year he had ***14*** FGs of 20-29 yards. So barely longer than the old PATs (which were 19 yards).

He has been consistently one of the worst kickers in the NFL. I don't think anybody else would keep a guy who hasn't been better than 20th in four years. He doesn't even have a big leg to compensate for his inaccuracy, being a coin flip kicker at 50+ in Cincinnati.

Never should have let Josh Brown go in order to just save a few bucks and be "loyal" to the OSU player. Since leaving Cincinnati, Josh Brown has been a 91.7% FG kicker, including being an 87.5% kicker at 50+.

Each of Josh Brown's three years since leaving Cincinnati are statistically better than Mike Nugent's career year.

Long since time to replace Nugent and Tate both.